5 Reasons your parents should use Linux
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| # Dell
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| You no longer can use the excuse that when you install Linux on your parents
| computer, it doesn’t work “out of the box”. With the semi-recent Dell and
| Canonical partnership you now have an option of buying a computer or laptop
| that comes pre-installed with Ubuntu Linux.
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http://www.foogazi.com/2007/09/27/5-reasons-your-parents-should-use-linux/
Selling Linux: what Dell could do
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| Recently I've been devoting some space to a discussion of Dell's efforts to
| sell Linux on certain PCs and laptops among its range of models. There's also
| been discussion of why this effort appears to be somewhat half-hearted.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/14657/1090/
Related:
Is it time to exit from Windows?
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| The offer of pre-installed Linux by mainstream PC makers doesn't mean the
| open-source operating system is poised to sweep aside Microsoft’s; but while
| its cost advantages may never be compelling, finance departments must prepare
| to consider the merits of switching their own operations to Linux – and to
| hear a stronger case for its company-wide adoption.
|
| [...]
|
| According to Dell, up to 30,000 buyers have already asked for pre-installed
| Linux.
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http://www.accountingweb.co.uk/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=171829&d=1032&h=1020&f=1026
Dell to stuff hypervisors in flash memory
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| Dell CTO Kevin Kettler today confirmed these plans during a speech here at
| LinuxWorld, saying the company expects to see major performance and
| power-saving improvements by dumping a hypervisor in flash. Customers will
| basically "boot to a virtual machine-ready" state, he said.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/07/dell_hypervisor_flash/
The Year of Virtualization
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| I think that Windows will continue to succumb to Linux in the data
| center, MySQL and Postgres will continue to win projects that once
| fell to Oracle and DB/2.
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http://virtualization.sys-con.com/read/162110_p.htm
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